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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Death Scene is examined by Trooper Don Graham, Tulsa, after this car was mangled at the railroad crossing Monday. H.F. Bernard, 53, Jenks, was killed in the crash with a freight train."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sanchez's car was the loser when it met up with a freight train engine at the fairgrounds Tuesday morning."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An 18-year-old Oklahoma City youth died after a freight train struck his car Friday in the 2400 block of S Linn. David Carol Oliver, 2631 W California, was dead on arrival at the city hospital."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Cars of Great Northern Railway passenger and freight trains litter the scene of a wreck near Minneapolis Saturday. A fast-moving passenger train bound from Chicago to west coast crashed into a derailed freight train Saturday injuring at least 32 persona. Five diesel units and about 20 cars on the Great Northern Railway's Western Star left the tracks about 10 miles west of here. Twenty-seven injured were sped to Methodist Hospital in the west suburban ST. Louis Park. The hospital said one of them was in serious condition."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CRUMPLED AUTO is shown it was hit by a Santa Fe train Monday night at Santa Fe and S 23. Dennis Ray Drennam, 21, of 2319, was taken to St. Anthony Hospital in good condition after the car was dragged 249 feet. Virgil R. Bangert, 49, of 5207 Beverly Dr., engineer, said the train was going about 20 miles per hour and he sounded the horn when the car turned onto the tracks from a parallel road."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Police and firemen administer first aid to two girls who were among those injured in an accident Saturday on an escalator at Baltimore's Stadium."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The front end of the car was sheared off Monday when struck be a freight train. A young Oklahoma City man and his pregnant wife were injured shortly after 8 a.m. Monday when their car was struck by a freight train on SE 83 between I.H. 35 and Easteren. J.C. Shoun, 19, of rout 12 and his wife, Ruby,21, were thrown from their car when it was clipped by the south-bound Santa Fe train. The couple was taken to University Hospital where a diagnosis still had not been made by noon."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Publication of this photograph without permission of Oklahoma Publishing Co. is forbidden under the copyright laws. If permission is granted, it must carry the following credits: Copyright, 1964, Oklahoma Publishing Co. In addition, all are cautioned that Oklahoma law prohibits publication of a photograph for any commercial purpose without the written permission of any person shown in this photograph."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The crash of this car and the 36-car freight train in the background resulted in the death Wednesday of Harry D. Beeman jr., of Tulsa. The collision at a north Tulsa crossing boosted the year's road toll to 25."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smashed car is shown after wrecker pulled it from front of engine. A 21-year-old Oklahoma City man narrowly escaped serious injury Monday night when a Santa Fe train smashed into the passenger side of his auto at S Santa Fe and 23. Dennis Ray Drennan, 2319 SW 20 was in good condition Monday night at St. Anthony Hospital. Accident investigator Kasenurm and C.S. McLaughlin said the car was dragged 249 feet north of the intersection by the train operated by Virgil R. Bangert, 49, of 5207 Beverly Dr. Bangert told officers the train was going about 20 miles per hour and that he sounded the engine's horn as the auto turned onto the tracks from a parallel dirt road."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WORKERS STRUGGLE in zero degree weather to free the body of Beryle Young, 63, from wreckage of car in which he was riding was hit by a train Thursday morning at Topeka, Kan. The driver of the car, Stan Johnson, 64, was seriously hurt."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A child's Bible lies atop the car which carried two children to their deaths Wednesday when a train clipped off the front of the auto. The driver and father of the children, James Paul Brown, 30, is an Ologah school teacher. He suffered critical injuries."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A girl injured in an escalator accident at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium Saturday is lifted over a railing by fireman. The girl had been crying with pain and covered her face as the picture was taken."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage of five railroad cars remained beside the torn-up MK&T track near Eufaula Tuesday morning but traffic on the main line had been restored. Seventeen cars of a freight train derailed near Eufaula Monday. The train buckled when the engineer slammed on the brakes after seeing a car stalled at the highway crossing. Eva Lee Baker, 41, of Eufaula, driver of the stalled car jumped clear and was not injured. His car was badly damaged. No one was injured and only one of the 150 cars in the train carried cargo. The route was cleared for traffic early Tuesday."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It took more then an hour for the car to be pried away from the train so bodies of five members of a Beckham County family could be removed."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fatal crashed west of Tulsa knocked this bridge abutment almost 20 feet Friday morning. Carl J. Hill, 49, Tulsa, was killed. Oklahoma's 1964 highway fatality toll climbed to 61 Friday with the death of a Mulhall man near Guthrie and a Tulsa man west of Tulsa. Leonard R. Killebrew, 43, Mulhall, died at 1:30 a.m. Friday in Benedictine Heights Hospital in Guthrie of multiple head and chest injuries. Trooper Hoyt Hughes said Killebrew's car collided with a Santa Fe switch engine when he attempted to cross the railroad tracks at U.S. 77, two miles north of Guthrie. Carl J. Hill, 49, Tulsa, was dead on arrival at a Tulsa hospital of a skull fracture suffered when the car in which he was ridding with his son."

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "INJURED CRITICALLY when this car and an 11-car Frisco freight train collided Thursday night at SW 29 and Newcastle Rd., was Loretta J. Sanders, 4, daughter of Mrs. David Sanders, 22, of 2408 S. Woodard. Loretta is in St. Anthony Hospital."

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